• ISBN13: 9788182743854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Earth-Science/Environment
• Publisher: Pentagon Press
• Publisher Imprint: Pentagon P
• Publication Date: August 16, 2009
• Pages: 247
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

Climate change poses a multidimensional international challenges, one that eludes straightforward solution. In Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto, some of the best-known and respected authorities in climate policy- including members of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)- provide a comprehensive agenda for global collective action. Representing both industrialized and developing nations, the contributors present a thought-provoking examination of the economic, social, and political context of climate policy within their countries. There is a growing international consensus that the earth's climate is being changed by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Evidence presented by the IPCC and others points to the potential for increasingly dangerous weather, new disease outbreaks, regional water shortages, the loss of habitat and species, and other disturbing developments that could have profound social and economic impacts around the globe. Opinion on what should be done to address climate change, however, remains sharply divided with and among countries.